Quest Flags go away on recovery

[DarkwoodBBS]

When I run an offline recovery, mudrev quest flags using Ability 200 or higher seem to be removed from characters. Is there any way to prevent this?

[syntax]

it's one of the cracks in the dll that needs to be made

edit: actually, to the wccmmutl.exe file

[BearFather]

Do you know what to look for to crack this?

I would love to raise the numbers myself.

[syntax]

I do. I have a crack for what says to be for "v1.11o and v1.11p-beta13" but the v1.11p-final has a different CRC. Also tested the crack on the v1.11o and v1.11p-beta13 wccmmutl.exe files and while it says it patched it, it also says it failed the crc check. So I'm trying to verify it all for v1.11p final.

[syntax]

So I just verified it. There is a file called " MajorMUD_v1.11o-v1.11p-b13_AbilityStripCrack.exe "

You run it and it says --

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MajorMUD v1.11o & v1.11p-beta13
*Offline Ability Strip Fix"

this will patch wccmmutl.exe to stop it from stripping abilities > 190.

this hack will only work on the v1.11o and v1.11p-beta13 wccmmutl.exe file.  it will appear to apply correctly to other versions but not work.

(v1.11p-beta13 was the latest wccmmutl.exe at the time of this patch creation)

I just verified that it also works on the v1.11p final wccmmutl.exe.

It changes...

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CODE:00403C9E                 cmp     [ebp+ebx*2+var_C2], 0BEh

to...

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CODE:00403C9E                 cmp     [ebp+ebx*2+var_C2], 7FFFh

0BEh => 190
7FFFh => 32767

Hex editor offset 3CA6

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3CA6:	BE => FF
3CA7:	00 => 7F

@offset 3C9E through 3CA7

stock:

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6681BC5D3EFFFFFFBE00

cracked:

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6681BC5D3EFFFFFFFF7F

[BearFather]

I'm not finding that file in google, so I will have to bust out the hex editor and give it a whirl. Thanks, I wish I knew this a year ago, much better then trying to shove all my quest flags into lower numbers.

[syntax]

Here

[DarkwoodBBS]

Thank you i will try this out

[Bloodrock]

my antivirus reports the crack is a virus

[BearFather]

my antivirus reports the crack is a virus

I'm not saying it's clean, but most programs that edit a file the way this does is considered a virus by the more "robust" antivirus software. I would google the the message your antivirus thinks it is.